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short film by Karissa Hahn

In Karissa Hahn’s enigmatic silent film, a series of dizzying whip-pans seems to reveal a sunlit woodland scene, which quickly dissolves into abstracted shapes, flickers of shadow and light, and curious traces of the natural and human-made.

2021, super 8 to 16mm, black & white, silent, 03:00, double projection

flowers bloom like unknown creatures before the helmet of astronauts, astronauts, astro-nots; for fiction of the views are tangled in the knowns of this planet

The image happened, no?

a distraction of simple thoughts while waiting on hold and aging.

one roll of expired super 8, in camera cross dissolves

short film by Karissa Hahn

The year 2021 – experience the duration of 1 year in 24 frames for 24 hours of the day – 365 strips of film inkjet printed with the precise amount of light per day, including accurate twilight times.

2017, thermochromic ink on 16mm film

short film by Karissa Hahn

And suddenly the last time in a home.

collaboration with Christina Nguyen

In a combination of documentary and fictionalised reconstruction, a multi-faceted analysis of contemporary art education and the particular impact of Michael Asher’s ‘post-studio class’ at the California Institute of the Arts in the 1970s.

one roll super 8, in camera cross dissolves

everything is becoming image / all is trapped and glitching / you are late for zoom again / your boss your teacher your lover is waiting